With the new Google Home hub and Google Assistant speech-recognition engine, plus integration with Nest IoT devices and audio/video via Cast, Google will rival Apple (Homekit) and Amazon (Alexa) in voice-controlled home automation.
Julie Jacobson
Julie Jacobson is founding editor of CE Pro, the leading media brand for the home-technology channel. She has covered the smart-home industry since 1994, long before there was much of an Internet, let alone an Internet of things. Currently she studies, speaks, writes and rabble-rouses in the areas of home automation, security, networked A/V, wellness-related technology, biophilic design, and the business of home technology. Julie majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, spent a year abroad at Cambridge University, and earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. She is a recipient of the annual CTA TechHome Leadership Award, and a CEDIA Fellows honoree. A washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player, Julie currently resides in San Antonio, Texas and sometimes St. Paul, Minn. Follow on Twitter: @juliejacobson
Julie Jacobson's Latest Posts
Home Tech Experts at Azione: Trends in Home Automation, DIY, Networking, Millennials
IoT and the business of smart-home data drove a panel discussion at the recent Azione Unlimted conference, where home-tech experts chimed in on everything from DIY automation to Millennials and the “ownerless economy.”
Home Automation and Cryptography Expert on DDoS Attack: Don’t Blame IoT
Blaming last week’s Internet outage on the rise of connected devices is just a convenient meme, says encryption expert Will Price, founder of the home automation provider Simple Control (Roomie Remote).
A Faustian Bargain: Will Builders Subsidize Smart Homes in Exchange for IoT Data?
Speaking at Azione Unlimited fall conference, home-building expert Tim Costello wondered aloud about the possibility of builders mining IoT data from home automation and other residential technologies.
Sad Day for the Home Automation Channel: HAUS Closes, Liquidates Assets
Three principals of the high-end Colorado integration firm Xssentials launched an ambitious franchise-like business one year ago called HAUS (Home Automation University), but the group couldn’t attract members quickly enough to sustain the costly venture.
Julie Jacobson’s 9 Themes from CEDIA 2016
Video doorbells, Amazon Alexa, 4K projectors, productivity software, virtual reality, up-and-coming wireless audio formats and other key themes from CEDIA 2016.
Simple Control Q&A: When an Expert Cryptographer Makes a Smart-Home System
Simple Control, a rich yet affordable home automation system developed by an expert cryptographer, launches remote monitoring platform to help integrators manage their clients’ smart homes.
TV Remote Lost in Couch May Have Caused House Fire
Can a remote control run hot enough to spark a fire?
New from Legrand: NuVo Soundbar, On-Q Cabinet-Mount NVR, C2G Modular Fiber Cable
At CEDIA 2016, Legrand introduced numerous products under brands NuVo (multiroom audio), On-Q (home automation, security and communications) and C2G (fiber-optic cables and video distribution).
Patent Application: Is Lutron Reinventing X10?
Lutron’s patent application describes lighting control and home automation over existing powerlines, no neutral wire required.
About that DIY Home Automation Thing: Case Study in Senior Living
In her blog on the changing landscape of DIY home automation, Julie Jacobson hoped to inspire new business models in the channel … like this innovative thinking that brings the Airbnb model to senior living.
3 Big Things You Might Not Know about Autonomic eSeries
Introducing its first IP-based multiroom audio system at CEDIA 2016, Autonomic saved a few eSeries surprises for the show, including Play-Fi and Crestron NSP replacement.
